Holiday Home Kodaikanal

As I am in the mountains, taking a train or a bus is tricky. Turns out the only bus leaves at 6am, which of course I miss. I decide to bite the bullet and just take a taxi for 30 bucks as it's about 5 and a half hours away. We leave, and after hours we enter Munnar area, up in the Ghats, with Kelly green rolling hills covered in tea plants in zigzags. The roads are seriously curved and you can't drive further than 20 feet without a turn. I find myself beginning to feel slightly ...

... no rain. Everything feels wet in the room but with the cool air, barn like accommodation and damp it feels like home and I think Dan for sure definitely appreciates the break from the heat.
We trundle round the town and decide that Switzerland is a bit of a long shot, although home made cheese and chocolate are Kodaikanals selling points and they do have a big lake. Its still India though, in all its psychotic glory. I do have to mention (I ...

This ex American hill station has given us a little rest from the sweaty climate of the south India plains. It's a welcome break. Chad, being from Canada, with his Eskimo blood, was more relieved than anyone. We have spent the few days we have had here wandering through narrow, tree lined lanes, along mountain paths, through villages and alongside lakes. We didn't take a "proper" trek this time, but nevertheless, we have enjoyed our ...

... and the bear shola falls, a nice small waterfall, though a classic example of how Indians spoil a place of natural beauty. There is rubbish all over the place and upon climbing to the top of one of the falls i saw a fresh pile of human faeces. Lovely. It was around this time that my insides and my normally iron stomach, began churning rather horribly. Nothing else to report for that day, a little relaxing before sleeping. Next day ...

... for a danish paper. After about 1 hour there it became obvious that the whole thing was pretty borring. Some famous guy from "Ishu yoga", i think its called, did live yoga on the screen, and people in the room begang to do the same breathing exercises. Never understood the complete meaning of that festival, but what we saw was pretty borring. So instead we went home and made ourselves a irish cofee ( a bottle of Indias best whiskey costs only 5$ :) )

... The cold, damp wood was anything but inviting, and certainly less sanitary than she felt her nine dollars should afford, but ever eager to learn more about the rituals of foreign cultures, she complied. With her arms at her sides in an effort to retain heat and her head uncomfortably crooked to one side on the hard flat surface, she could hear that the woman was preparing some sort of medical concoction. A few seconds later she was covered from head to toe in a ...

... viel Geduld gefragt ist. Manchmal nerven mich diese Art Probleme schon sehr, denn die dafür aufgewendete Zeit würde ich lieber für Trainingsstunden oder administrative Aufgaben verwenden, um das Programm weiter voran zu bringen. Myra macht sich immer besser, denn sie hat mittlerweile eine ziemlich geregelten drei Stunden Rhythmus, mit Trinken, Spielen und Schlafen, so dass ich mich gut auf sie einstellen kann. Schwieriger ist es, wenn ich länger außer Haus gehe und meine ...

... If, however, we are following the way of love, then it will lead us to God, our fellow men and to ourselves (comp. Mark 11:30f.). Of course, this is not easy! Jesus expects nothing less of us than to even and especially love our enemies (comp. Matthew 5:43-48). Yet, is there any other way to overcome the tension between apathy towards religion and religious fanaticism than to turn to the followers of both extremes in self-sacrificing love following the example of ...

... Goa. 14 Tage Bilderbuchurlaub: Sandstrand, Palmen, Sonne, Meer - einfach nur Ausspannen und Erholen. Das heißt, so ganz stimmt das nicht, denn, wer uns kennt, weiß, daß wir uns nicht einfach nur für 14 Tage an' Strand legen können. Also haben wir auch in Goa kürzere oder längere Exkursionen gemacht zusammen mit Ulrikes Onkel Heinrich und Lorenz, einem Freund aus Dänemark. Jetzt sind wir aber schon wieder für fast eine Woche zurück in Kodaikanal und morgen am vierten Advent werden ...

... nach 21:00 Uhr Bettruhe. Kaum zu glauben, ab** den Schül**n hat dies** wirklich h**ausford**nde Tagesrythmus mit den durchaus anstrengenden Meditationseinheiten sogar ganz gut gefallen, wenn es auch nichts für tagtäglich wäre. Vom Bodhi Zendo sind wir weit**gefahren nach Trichy, wo wir neben dem Compound d** TELC und d** St. Joseph Augenklinik d** Christoffel Blinden Mission auch den christlichen Saccidanandam Ashram besucht haben, d** zu Lebzeiten seines geistlichen Gurus Bede ...